Google Earth Webquest (Urban Design/Wickner)
Google Earth Webquest
Fly into ‘ Inland Empire, CA’
Make sure that there are NO labels. (nothing is checked in ‘layers’)
Feel free to zoom in or out as you answer these questions.
1. What are four geographic features you notice?
2. What do you notice about the ocean?
3. Identify 10 cities you see in this overview.
Use the sun image at the top to determine the following
4. What time is sunrise?
5. What time is sunset?
Use the ruler tool to:
6. Measure the distance between Mentone and your approximation
in San Bernardino.
7. Measure the distance between two places of your choice. (record
the two places and the distance between them).
Under the Layers, Click on Borders and Labels
8. What is the distance between San Bernardino and Yucaipa now
that they are labeled?
9. What is the distance between your two choice places now that
they are labeled?
Under layers, click on places
10.
What types of places are listed? Why do you think these
were chosen?
Under layers, click on pictures
11.
What do you notice about the location of these pictures?
12.
What is the location closest to Muscoy that is pictured?
Why is this pictured?
Under layers, click on Roads
13.
Where is the greatest concentration of roads?
14.
Where is the least concentration of roads?
Under Layers, click on oceans
15.
What are the oceanfront areas in the Inland Empire?
16.
What is the most suprising thing about this to you?
Under Layers, click on Weather
17.
What is the weather in IE today? San Bernardino?
18.
Why would this feature be more useful than other weather
finders?
Under Layers click on Global Awareness
19.
What do you learn from this feature?
Under Layers hit, ‘More’
20.
What are five new things you learned from this part of the
map?
Unclick all of the layers
Go to the top bar and click on the clock sign
The clock sign will allow a timeline to pop up from 1945-2013. Use this
bar to locate the requested times.
Zoom into Inland Empire
21.
Name three differences between Inland Empire in 1947
and 1987.
22.
Name three differences between Inland Empire in 1987
and 2000.
23.
Name three differences between Inland Empire in 2000
and 2013.
24.
What are two general trends you notice in the pictures and
the content over time?
Zoom out to the Inland Empire by putting ‘Fly to Inland Emipire, CA’
Click on the ‘earth’ Icon.
Under the ‘earth’ Icon there are four areas (Earth, Sky, Mars, Moon)
25.
What new information do you learn from the sky?
26.
What new information do you learn from Mars?
27.
What new information did you learn from the Moon?
Processing/Analysis
28.
Analyze the benefits and drawbacks of relying on google
earth for your navigation purposes.
29.
Analyze the similarities and differences between google
earth and google maps.
Part II: Extension (You must do this to earn an A for this assignment)
Record a tour:
Tips for recording a tour:
 Hit the recorder button at the top
 Hit BOTH the red record button and then the speaker button to
make an audio
 Click once on the mouse to zoom in someplace.
 Click twice on the mouse to have it become a flat image.
 You can use the control bars to travel along the ground.
 You can use the walking person to walk into interesting areas.
 This will be your final project for this unit.